Liverpool played host to Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Sunday afternoon, and Igor Tudor was spotted on live TV making quite the gaffe after making his way down the tunnel prior to kick-off

Igor Tudor seemingly mistook Allan Dixon for Arne Slot ahead of Tottenham Hotspur’s away trip to Liverpool on Sunday afternoon. The Croatian headed into the fixture with mounting pressure on his back, having failed to win any of his four matches since taking up an interim managerial role last month.

As things stand, Spurs sit 16th in the Premier League standings on 29 points alongside a 17th-place Nottingham Forest and an 18th West Ham – safe only via goal difference. And with just eight matches remaining in 2025/26, the plausibility of the 47-year-old helping the club avoid their first-ever relegation to the Championship seems to be dwindling by the day.

However, it was Tudor’s actions ahead of kick-off against Liverpool that caught the attention of fans worldwide, as he looked to have approached Dixon from behind thinking he was about to share a traditional pre-match handshake with Slot . After making his way out of the tunnel, Tudor tapped Dixon – who is Spurs’ player liaison officer – before putting his arm around him and briefly exchanging words.

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And one eagle-eyed social media user was quick to share a clip of the interaction online, writing: “Igor Tudor confused Alan Dixon for Arne Slot,” with a string of laughing emojis. The replies section of the post were also filled with sarcastic comments about Tudor’s struggles with Spurs, as well as what Dixon was doing on the touchline.

One person wrote: “Just like he confuses himself he’s a manager,” while another added: “Alan Dixon works for Spurs lol. He’s literally a colleague.”

A third said: “Why is Alan Dixon standing on the sideline like he is some sort of coach though?” while a fourth joked: “He was complimenting him on buying the same coat I think?”

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The alleged assault took place outside of the Zabka grocery store on Deane Road, Rumworth, at 7.45pm.

A GMP Bolton spokesperson said: “We are appealing for information for an assault which took place outside of Zabka on Deane Road, Bolton on the 14th March 2026 at approximately 19:45.

“If you have any information, please contact 101 or utilise LiveChat at ‘Contact us’, Greater Manchester Police, quoting log 2782 of the 14th March 2026.”

According to Greater Manchester Police, officers were called to the scene after men were seen fighting in the area.

Around 10 other people were seen to be watching the fight.

One of the men is reported to have punched another man in the face.

Officers are currently investigating the incident, and are appealing for members of the public to come forward with information.

It all started with a set-piece, as so many Premier League games seem to these days, but by the end Manchester United’s 3-1 win over Aston Villa had become an advert for the benefits of good old fashioned wingers and number nines.

Much has been made of the role of set-pieces in the league as several sides have struggled to reliably create goals from open play, but in the end United took a giant leap towards next season’s Champions League in a more familiar manner, with Matheus Cunha the star as he and Benjamin Sesko sealed the result.

In the end, a 3-1 win for Michael Carrick’s side takes them three points clear of the Villans in the battle for the top five, but while it’s a win that puts United in an enviable position, it was a scoreline that flattered the hosts.

It was a performance that was not as convincing as the result suggests. In the end it followed a similar blueprint for Carrick’s United, but this time around the tried-and-tested method raised a different conclusion.

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Recent United games have been defined by Benjamin Sesko cameos, with the Slovenian striker coming off the bench to score against Fulham, West Ham and Everton. That was the case again this afternoon, and while the 22-year-old didn’t net a winner this time, it was a cameo that might have convinced Carrick to take a different route forward for the rest of the season.

The interim United boss once again chose Bryan Mbeumo to start as a lone striker at Old Trafford – as he had for six of his previous eight matches in charge – while Sesko settled for a place on the bench, the plan seemingly to bring him on around the 70th minute as has worked to great effect previously.

However, once again United laboured in the absence of a recognised striker in the starting line-up, the hosts struggling to create clear-cut chances despite a few threatening crosses.

While it might not have been the case in other games, this time round it was a display that clearly underlined the need for a recognised striker on the pitch, Diogo Dalot wasting a golden chance from close range while Mbeumo toiled in attack. The Cameroon international did not possess enough of a box presence, and failed to take the chance of a near-post run across the defender to get onto the end of a superb Dalot cross.

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When the opener did come it was via a familiar route, Casemiro glancing in a header from a corner. Old Trafford was buoyed but Villa soon hit back, Ross Barkley finishing well and taking United back to square one.

And while Mbeumo continued to struggle in a lone striker role – often too isolated against Mings and Konsa – United finally got joy from the left wing, Matheus Cunha making a perfect run before curling a brilliant finish into the far corner for 2-1.

It was a goal that underlined Cunha’s status as the club’s most exciting and effective winger, the Brazilian providing a threat with a clever run inside the full-back and once again proving a difference-maker, as he did against Palace.

Carrick reacted to retaking the lead by making his favourite substitution. Sesko replaced Mbeumo in the 75th minute and the Stretford End sang the Cameroonian’s name as he made his way to the bench. But while he came off to a standing ovation, it didn’t take long for his replacement to illustrate exactly why he should be the one starting every game.

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Within six minutes of his introduction Sesko was once again on the scoresheet, the youngster firing in to effectively kill the game in the 81st minute. Cunha provided the width before taking the ball down brilliantly to get into the box. While his cross wasn’t a great one, Sesko then pounced on the loose ball, turning it in via a fortunate deflection. It was precisely the natural striker instinct that Mbeumo had failed to show throughout his cameo.

While it was a fortunate third for the hosts it was one that featured the exact type of wing play and striking nous that has been lacking earlier on. It sealed the three points but while everything seems rosy at United, obvious improvements can be made.

Mbeumo’s striker experiment has not failed as such – in fact, it worked to great effect in the wins over Manchester City and Arsenal – but it is something that should be reserved for very specific circumstances.

Carrick has Sesko to thank for grabbing at least 10 points with pivotal goals and another important goal for the 22-year-old proves that he is ready for a starting berth. Surely Carrick can now see that making him a regular starter is the blueprint for the next step in his interim revolution.

Lauren James returned to haunt her former club, Manchester United, again as she spearheaded Chelsea to victory in the Women’s League Cup final.

James, who left United to join Chelsea in 2021, opened the scoring in the 19th minute before Aggie Beever-Jones netted the decisive strike in the second half.

James, who signed a new contract to keep her at Chelsea until 2030, has missed much of this season through injury but has been slowly returning to form.

She was pivotal in England’s victory over Iceland last weekend and she was at the heart of everything Chelsea did in this final.

James put her hand to her ear after opening the scoring in front of United’s fans, who booed her for much of the game. A mistake at the back from United allowed the forward to score the game’s first goal – and her sixth against her former side in her last seven games.

Dominique Janssen mis-hit a back-pass to Phallon Tullis-Joyce and James stole possession before the forward sent a cool finish past the United goalkeeper.

United twice went close to equalising before half-time. Elisabeth Terland sent a shot against the crossbar before Ellen Wangerheim fired wide from close-range.

Chelsea were without a number of players because of injuries while Ellie Carpenter and Sam Kerr are participating in the Asia Cup for Australia. It meant head coach Sonia Bompastor was forced to start a makeshift back-four, with Kadeisha Buchanan making her first start since returning from an ACL injury. Buchanan could only play 62 minutes before making way for Nathalie Bjorn, who had not played since December 2.

But Bjorn lasted just five minutes before being forced off with a calf injury, as the defender headed down the tunnel in tears. With three of Chelsea’s back four playing out of position, United should have been the team pressing for a goal. But Chelsea found a second goal in the 77th minute, as Beever-Jones poked home a cross from Johanna Rytting Kaneryd.

Full report to come…

JERUSALEM (AP) — The brother of a man who attacked a Michigan synagogue last week, who was killed earlier this month in an Israeli airstrike, was a Hezbollah commander, Israel’s military claimed Sunday.

Ibrahim Ghazali was killed in Lebanon along with three other of the attacker’s relatives on March 5 — a week before authorities allege Ayman Mohamad Ghazali drove his car into a major synagogue outside Detroit and killed himself after security fired at him.

The FBI’s Detroit office, which is investigating the attack, declined to comment on the claims by Israel’s military about Ibrahim Ghazali.

“Out of respect for the ongoing investigation, we will continue to refrain from commenting on its substance,” FBI spokesman Jordan Hall said in an email Sunday.

The AP was not immediately able to verify the claim that Ibrahim Ghazali was a militant.

The Israeli military alleges Ibrahim Ghazali was a Hezbollah commander who managed weapons for a unit that fired rockets at Israel.

A Lebanese official, who requested anonymity because he could not publicly discuss details of the airstrike, has confirmed Ibrahim Ghazali’s death, telling the AP that Ghazali’s children, Ali and Fatima, and brother, Kassim, were also killed in the strike that hit their home just after sunset.

Authorities have said that Ayman Ghazali, 41, carried out the synagogue attack after learning that four of his family members were killed in the Israeli strike.

Israel has stepped up attacks on the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon as the war with Iran has spread violence across the Middle East.

On Thursday, Ayman Ghazali waited in his car outside Temple Israel, near Detroit, for about two hours with a rifle, commercial grade fireworks and jugs of liquid believed to be gasoline, before crashing into the building full of dozens of children, according to authorities.

He started firing his gun through the windshield, exchanging fire with an armed security guard. Ghazali fatally shot himself after he got stuck in his vehicle and the engine caught fire, said Jennifer Runyan, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Detroit field office. No staffers or children inside the synagogue were hurt, likely due to beefed up security in recent months.

The FBI, which is leading the investigation, described the attack on one of the nation’s largest Reform synagogues as an act of violence targeting the Jewish community, but said that they didn’t have enough evidence yet to call it an act of terror.

Ghazali came to the U.S. in 2011 on an immediate relative visa as the spouse of a U.S. citizen and was granted U.S. citizenship in 2016, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

He lived in a single-story brick home in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn Heights about 38 miles (61 kilometers) south of the synagogue.

The attack on the Michigan synagogue took place on the same day as a former Army National Guard member who served years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State opened fire on a classroom at Old Dominion University in Virginia, killing one person and wounding two others.

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Mroue reported from Beirut.

SPECIAL REPORT: The developer behind Farnworth Green said that the issues risk ‘squandering this once in a generation opportunity to make the centre of town fantastic’

A new housing development hailed as the catalyst of a town’s regeneration is being ‘terrorised’ by gangs of youths, residents say.

Farnworth Green, a long-campaigned for redevelopment of the 1970s market precinct in the town centre, was completed in late 2024, following two years of construction. The 97 flats and town-houses built are fully let to residential tenants.

However, a Manchester Evening News investigation has found some residents are set to leave the development when their initial tenancy agreement ends.

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They say they are not going because of the build quality of the apartments, its location or rent levels, but purely due to feeling unsafe due to persistent anti-social behaviour from young people, often wearing balaclavas, gathering in the area and misbehaving.

Residents have told of break-ins, attempted muggings and stones thrown at them, along with racial and sexual abuse directed at them in public areas.

One tenant said some were considering taking matters into their own hands and ‘it’s only a matter of time until one of us gets arrested’.

A recent incident saw the communal square between the two blocks vandalised, with a tree, plants and shrubs torn out and launched through open flat windows and onto balconies.

Tim Heatley, the co-founder of Farnworth Green’s developer, Capital & Centric said the issues threaten to ‘squander this once in a generation opportunity’ to regenerate the town.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said a new team of officers was operating in the town centre and pledged to address the behaviour of the youths.

They encouraged those affected to report incidents so that resources could be diverted to the area.

Matt Jones, 26, has lived at Farnworth Green since July 2025. He said that due to the issues he and his partner would be moving out when their year long tenancy agreement ends.

“Like many of the other residents, we’ve felt consistently terrorised by the anti-social behaviour here,” he said.

“Many of us are scared to leave our homes after 5pm because they all hang around outside the building and have broken in numerous times.”

In January Matt was the victim of an attempted phone robbery while on the public square at Farnworth Green.

He said: “I was walking towards Asda down Brackley Street and as I turned past the Coffee House two lads on bikes wearing balaclavas were approaching me from behind. “The first one rammed into my back, trying to knock me down, luckily he didn’t, and the second one went to swipe my phone out of my pocket.”

On March 5, the town centre police team held a public meeting at Farnworth Green with tenants, other town centre residents and business owners.

One man shared his frustration with officers: “It’s eventually going to get to the point where one of us is going to get arrested,” he said.

“People are moving out, how much time do you need?”

Around 30 minutes in, the meeting was briefly interrupted after young people on bikes were spotted at the windows of the Rivington suite, apparently filming those inside with phones. A police officer and a PCSO immediately went outside to speak to them.

One woman told the meeting: “It’s been 12 months of pretty much the same kids. “The other day we had an incident of criminal damage, they snapped a tree, flipped a bench over pulled a loads of plants out and chucked them through people’s open window and balconies.

“It’s the groups hanging around the area, it is anti-social – shouting, racial abuse, verbal abuse and throwing stones at people.”

Another woman, said: “As residents we feel very threatened. When you see a big group of boys, whether they do things or not it threatening.

“As a person of colour I’ve been targeted with racial slurs and had stones thrown at me while walking. “We need to feel safe in out own flats, we have a right to that.

“At the moment it’s so threatening to even walk from our flats to Asda, which is a very short distance.”

Recent messages on a residents’ group reveal that other tenants intend to move out because of the issues.

One said: “We have called the police three times regarding this, nothing has been done. “The night we moved into our apartment one of them shot a firework right next to our puppy, absolutely terrified her, since then she’s been petrified of fireworks and bangs. “Unfortunately, we’ll be moving out in May.”

Another, said: “I’ve been basically moved out for months – the kids are constant and the police are doing nothing. “I don’t feel safe and my car isn’t safe either.

“I hate that people in this development are becoming victims to these degenerate kids and I hate that I’ve wasted so much money on a place that is unsafe to live in.”

GMP have encouraged tenants encountering issues around the complex to report it to them. Farnworth community Sgt Emily Fogg said every incident from Farnworth Green would be reviewed and reports were never ‘lost in the system’.

She added data would be used to divert police resources to where they are needed.

She said: “I know the data we have for this area does not reflect what’s actually happening here at all. “The reports we get are absolutely less than what you’re experiencing.

“If we get the repeat addresses where trouble is happening, repeat offenders, repeat victims, having that data from all the different lines of communication – then something has got to be done about it.

“Without that data it’s really difficult for us to campaign to senior leadership who have control of where resources are deployed. “That’s why engagement and reporting is important even if you you not get a cop coming to you.”

She also stressed the importance of CCTV and phone video evidence of issues to identify offenders.

Farnworth town centre PCSO Dougie Tamuno said the police and community would have a fresh start in Farnworth.

He said “We need to move forward and learn, because now we’ve got new team. “If we know the names of the individuals, we can put that to the faces.

“A lot of them a all ballied up but we will try and identify them.”

The police and community meeting explored sanctions and consequences if culprits are identified.

The discussion explored the work of the youth ASB pathway and the tools available to the police, including referrals, exclusion orders, warnings and bail conditions as the criminal element is progressed.

Attendees also heard about possible tenancy warnings to parents of culprits and working with schools and youth clubs.

Practical solutions were also discussed around investments in the town centre CCTV system and high street lighting and modernising communication channels between town centre businesses.

Ollo, the management company who run Farnworth Green, said they were ‘doing everything we can’ to work with the police on the issues.

Ollo said employing private security guards at the complex could ‘create a cat and mouse situation’ as they do not have the powers of police.

A spokesman, added: “We are becoming increasingly frustrated about the ongoing issues with local youths, anti-social behaviour, criminal damage to our green, intimidation and verbal abuse.

“We need to push for a police presence and not have the attitude ‘there’s nothing we can do’. “Report every incident to the police – it takes five minutes to report an incident online.

“If it’s not reported, it doesn’t exist in official records and the police need accurate data to understand the scale and severity of what’s happening.”

Tim Heatley is the co-founder of Capital & Centric, the developers behind Farnworth Green. He said: “We share the frustration at this. “It’s upsetting to hear these comments from tenants.

“We are aware of these issues and are deeply frustrated. “This development for Farnworth is a once in a generation investment.

“The physical space we’ve created and the management team we’ve put in there are great, that’s the positive side.

“But I’m worried that of we don’t get this next bit right, the policing side of it, we’re going to squander this once in a generation opportunity to make the centre of Farnworth fantastic.”

Hospital staff have assisted those in their care to create gifts for their mums on mother’s day

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Staff in the Ulster Hospital’s Children’s Unit have been busy preparing for Mother’s Day as they have helped their young patients create special arts, crafts and certificates for their Mums.

The Paediatric Team pulled out all the stops to ensure that Mums — who need to spend time in the Unit — will have their own memento to mark the day. South Eastern Trust Healthcare Play Specialist, Sharon Pauley explained how the arts and crafts were organised to ensure that families could still celebrate the special occasion together.

She said: “We wanted to create activities that would bring a little joy to our patients and their families while they are here with us in the Unit. We created cards and certificates to let patient’s Mums know how special they are and that they are valued,” said Sharon.

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“We want to say a huge thank you to Staff Nurse, Donna Miller, who bought items for our flower vases to give to the Mums.

“And of course, we also want to wish all those who are marking the occasion, a very happy Mother’s Day.”